Dogged by growing controversy over his use of an anti-gay slur after a screening of his movie Tower Heist and boorish comments he made about his sex life on The Howard Stern Show, Brett Ratner
has stepped down as the producer of this year’s Oscars telecast.
Yesterday, in an attempt to tamp down an explosion of bad press surrounding Ratner’s remark that “rehearsal is for fags,”
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Among the girlfriends who needed a checkup before sex, he said, was a much younger Lindsay Lohan.
A description of the conversation, in which Ratner was certainly egged on by Stern, from Stern’s website:
“Asked about a recent incident in which he’d disparaged Olivia Munn, Brett said she’d more or less named him as a gross, shrimp-loving ex-lover in her book: ‘I should have said, “I don’t eat shrimp. When I jerk off, I don’t eat shrimp” … [but] I said I banged her three times, which isn’t true.’ But he did bang Lindsay Lohan — right after Wilmer Valderrama: ‘This was before she was actually ‘Lindsay Lohan.’ She was really young.’”